Where did it come from? Why now? Why did it take Justin Rose 15 years to
complete what was foreseen way back in 1998? And why now? Why this last
weekend just outside Philidelphia? Why not two months ago in Augusta? Or in
any of the other majors Rose has been patiently and determinedly battling
with ever since his famous baptism at Birkdale. Why was Merion the one?

If we knew all that, then sport would be simple. We can guess and we can
marvel and we can stroke our chins and assess the evidence. But it would be
too